Grandfathered drug for high potassium has no proven benefit
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 00:56
in Health & Medicine
For more than half a century, products containing ion exchange resins have been used in patients with dangerously high levels of potassium. However, there is no convincing evidence that these products are actually effective, according to an article appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). 'We suspect that if ion exchange resins were introduced today, they would not be approved,' comments Richard H. Sterns, MD (Rochester General Hospital, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY)...